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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Fascism is again ascendant. The far-right politician Giorgia Meloni is expected to become Italy’s prime minister after elections on Sunday. Extremism is the political cost of pronounced social inequality and political stagnation. Demagogues, who promise moral and economic renewal, vengeance against phantom enemies and a return to lost glory, rise out of the morass.
Much like Adolf Hitler, Narendra Modi’s eyes are set on the complete dominance of the BJP in Indian politics. To this effect, his government will continue to use its carrot-and-stick policy to destroy the opposition.
‘Nazi Billionaires’, a new book by Bloomberg journalist David de Jong, reminds us who runs Germany: the grandchildren of war criminals.
While we celebrate our 75th anniversary of Independence Day, and remember and pay tributes to the heroic sacrifices made by our freedom fighters, this is also an occasion to take stock of the challenges facing our country.
Is there to be any healing, any end to hate, and the cycle of deprivation as we begin the march to our century as an Independent Republic? For my children and theirs, for future generations of Indians, I devoutly hope so.
Public intellectuals should be respected because they speak out against injustice wherever it occurs.
Gandhians are facing an unprecedented challenge today. Their world-view, icons, agenda of nation-building, institutional set-up and campaigns and programs are being challenged from all sides by a Hindu-centric political force.
Saudi Arabia is one of the top destinations in the world for human traffickers, slave labour and sex trafficking. It is out of control.
Book Review: John Feinstein, ‘Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports’. This book is a storehouse of inspiring anti-fascist and social justice stories.
Death threats, lost friendships and a bleak academic future — victims of Karnataka’s hijab ban continue to suffer.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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